CRT + Sad & Carefree Black Girls

CRT:

  • Conservative right wing has claimed as a subversive set of ideas

  • Rejects the philosophy of “colorblindness”

  • Racial issues exist in the US

  • Race is a creation of society

  • Seeing, attending to, accounting for, tracing, and analyzing the ways in which race is produced

  • Method that uses history and social reality to take lived racism seriously

  • “State-sanctioned racism”


Sad Girls and Carefree Black Girls:

  • Theoretical frames explore girlhood, race, gender, and (digital) resistance in neoliberal times

  • “Can-do girls”

    • Light touches of feminism

  • The solution to the problem is also a problem

  • White sad girls are common

    • Lana Del Rey

    • Popular “white sad girls” online

    • Sad Girl Theory

      • Sadness of girls as an act of resistance

    • Merchandise that advertises sad status

  • Latina sad girls have suffered extreme hardships

  • Discovery of an aesthetic with amnesia of its history

  • Affective performance tied to racialized performance

  • Carefree black girls celebrate joy

    • Black girl magic

  • Different forms of freedom in different races